University of Utah Usability Lab

About

The University of Utah Usability Lab (U3LAB) is focused on improving the user experience
(UX) of websites, software, applications, consumer products, and medical devices.
If your product has an interface, the U3LAB can help you evaluate its effectiveness.

Among the services we offer are the following:

User Research

Understand who your users are, what they do, what motivates them, and how those insights
can dramatically affect your design decisions. To do this work we can conduct filed
research, focus groups, surveys or the development of personas.

Design and Evaluation

While you are developing your user interface is the time to already improve your design
by incorporating user feedback. Thus, we provide feedback for you throughout the complete
design process and a evaluation of your final design For this purpose we can evaluate
design wireframes, interactive prototypes that allow early stage usability assessment.
As part of the Design and Evaluation process we can provide you with design services,
usability testing, expert reviews, eye-tracking data and accessibility assessments.

Validation

To validate your design method is is important to continuously assess user experience
using large-scale quantitative studies. For this purpose we will help you to perform
user experience benchmarking which will help you to compare design alternatives and
validate design decisions.

To perform a typical user experience study the following tasks need to be performed
We can develop a customized approach for your needs. Among those are: